Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Absolutely the worst movie.

Great movie! If you want to be entertained and have a few good laughs, see this movie. The music is also very good,

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

I normally wince when I see writer/director. Not so much a wince with this one but you can see the cracks. The trouble with writer/directors is that they often get too attached to their own writing brilliance without realising that it can be self-indulgent and un-needed fluff. At over 2 hours, this, alas, has more than it's fair share.Having said that, it's not at all a bad movie. It's interesting, intriguing and suspenseful although the 'surprise' ending is anything but (assuming you stayed with the previous 1 hour 59 minutes).It's very much like a Famous Five (or Secret Seven) and jolly hockey sticks with an underlying level of mystery and menace and just a smidgen of adult gruesomeness.The acting is excellent, the scenery is superb and the story is really good (if terribly overwritten). So if you like or hanker after the glamour of the 40s with a touch of thrill, do watch it but grab a few beers to help you through the drawn-out bits.

delicate theme. good performances. an interesting manner to use the tension. and British atmosphere. not real convincing in few details, too slowly at the first sigh, with crumbs from Hitchcock wise used, it is a beautiful film. maybe, not a masterpiece but fascinating for the mixture of war, life of a family from high society and the fall of basic image. a film about duty. in different forms. splendid work by Bill Nighy. good job by Romola Garai who preserves the measure. and ideal spice - the presence of Julie Christie. a film who seduces. beautiful, powerful, not perfect but interesting space for a smart script. and that could be the best virtue.

I happen to be a big fan of British period dramas. Of course, when they are done well. Alas, this is a dreadful mess of a movie. Almost nothing makes any sense whatsoever. To begin with the obvious, what in the world possessed the director to film with the drunken, skewed camera lenses. After ten minutes of watching, one feels noxious. Then the characters, randomly walking around, tattling some nonsensical lines, and not a one of them looks real. Next, for example, complete lack of suspense or logic. Pro-Nazi supporters among the British upper classes are a well known fact, but that part of history deserves serious handling. This Gothic, under-thought dribble is a huge disappointment.

As others have mentioned, this film begins as a Hitchcockian thriller, in which an innocent party becomes privy to information that powerful people would rather keep quiet. (Surprisingly, unlike most British political thrillers, the villains are pacifist lefties.) The writer/director builds the suspense by keeping us in the dark about who the bad guys are, and putting the main character in more and more peril. But the plot gets tiresome when we start getting red herrings about whether the main character is telling the truth or hallucinating; and the denouement is unfulfilling and not slightly illogical. I was REALLY enjoying this film until it started to unravel about 3/4 through.